Do a bill that gets us to next August.
Get rid of the commission idea.
Make the election about Cut Cap & Balance vs Tax & Spend.
we need to cut spending NOW, to have any chance of avoiding a rating downgrade, that will cost us billions more in interest.
Bush ran deficits of .4 trillion. not 1.6 trillion.
there is NO earthly reason, for the deficit to have tripled since 2006. we need to return to the 2006 budget, NOW.
(it actually BALANCES with current income!)
if we pass a temporary bill, the dems and MSM will run scare tactic campaigns, against ALL interest groups.
which will SUCCEED.
the only way around it, is to cut NOW, and make the interest groups COMPETE, instead of cooperate to keep spending big.
in 2012:
“So that becomes the new normal. Now, if we control all three branches, all three branches will have to deal with almost $17 trillion in immediate debt rather than trillions less, and the political situation is not going to be any better in dealing with it.
Let’s just advance forward and let’s say we do win the Senate and we do win the presidency in 2012, but we’ve added $2.5 trillion in debt between now and then.
The political situation is not going to be any better in terms of dealing with the debt. Plus we’re going to have to deal with entitlements as well. None of this does. “
even Cut Cap & Balance would add about 8 TRILLION to the National Debt in the next 10 years.
if a working family hits a credit limit, with a huge debt, they cut IMMEDIATELY. not gradually.